'I Stand in Awe': The Fascinating Theology of Charles Krauthammer

Will Maule : Jun 26, 2018
Faithwire.com

"...I see the same kind of intellectual gap in the capacity of humans to understand in any deep sense about theology of God, as for a snail to figure out how the tides work."

[Faithwire.com] While in his first year studying at Harvard Medical School, the late conservative columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer was permanently paralyzed from the neck down after a horrific diving board accident severed his spinal cord. So, in many ways, he had the most to gain from the unfettered stem cell research that was rubber-stamped by the Obama administration back in 2009. But Krauthammer, who sat on the Presidents Council for bioethics, became a leading dissenter to the morally questionable action. In an interview with Dennis Prager, he explained why. (Photo source: Facebook/via Faithwire)

"I thought this might help me someday but what is far more important to me is that my son might grow up in a world where moral lines are drawn and where we do not manipulate the human embryo—that kind of world I would not want to bequeath to him," the eloquent columnist explained. "Obama left open the manipulation of the human embryo with no limits and I found that utterly unconscionable. So I declined to attend the ceremony."

Over the years, there has been much speculation as to the nature of Krauthammer's personal religious convictions, and he kept us guessing right until the end. "There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear Him greatly.' That's about where I am," Krauthammer told the Daily Caller back in 2013. "I've had a fairly difficult and complicated notion of the Deity."

One thing is for sure, however, he found none of life's answers in the philosophical blackhole of atheism. "I believe atheism is the least plausible of all the theologies," the renowned writer told Prager. "It is clear so contrary to what is possible. The idea that all this universe always existed, created itself? I mean, talk about the violation of human rationality"...

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